Heddle



H. RUEGG, Jn.

HEDDLE. APPLICATION :FILED lUL'Y 16| 1919.

1,341,245. Patented May 25, 1920.

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'HEDDLL APPLICATION FILED JULY lr6. 1919.

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HENRY RUEGG, JR., F WEEHAWKEN, NEW JERSEY.

To all whom 'it may concer/n Be 1t lrnown thatl, HENRY Ronce, Jr., a

` citizen oi': the United States, and a resident of Weehawlcen, in the cminty o'i l-iudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Heddle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to looms and its object is to provide a new and improved heddle which is simple and durable in construction, cheap to manufacture, and arranged to enable the weaver to thread a Warp thread through the eye of the heddle without the use of a hook or similar tool. Another object is to prevent the warp thread from accidentally passing out of the eye on raising or lowering the heddle. Another ob 'ect is to permit of making the heddle og one single strip of metal or other material. l y

With these andother ob`ects in view, the invention consists of certalnnovel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. Figure 1 is a face view of the heddle blank; v

Fi 2 is a similar view of the finished hedd e;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same;

Fi 4 is a face view of a blank for a modified orm of the heddle;

Fi 5 is a similar view of the modified form of the heddle;

Fig. 6 is an edge vieit7 of the same;

Fig. 7 is a face view of a blank for another moditied form of the heddle;

Fig. 8 is a similar view of the modified form of the heddle;

Fig. 9 is an edge view of the same;

Fig. l() is a face view of another modied form of the heddle and Fig. 11 is an edge view of the same with a su erposed covering strip applied thereto.

he heddle illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is formed from a single strip 10 of metal or other material, and the upper portion is made Wider than the lower portion and this upper Specification of Letters Patent.

y HEDDLE.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application led July 1G, 1919. Serial No. 311,148.

3. The lower ends of the members 13 and y 14 are provided with transversely extending bends 15, 16 bent in opposite directions to form an e e 17 for the passage of the war p thread. llt will be noticed that the eye 17 is closed by the joint of the lower ends of the members 13 and 14, and the upper end of the eye is closed by the superposed members 13 and 14 and hence the warp thread is not liable to accidentally pass out oit' the eye on moving the heddle up and down. When it is desired to place a warp thread in position in the eye 17 it is only necessary for the weaver to spread the members 13 and 14 apart, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, to allow the weaver to `readily pass the warp thread between the two members and then slide the warp thread downward until it passes into the eye 17. The members 13 and 14 return by their own resiliency to closed superposed position on being released by the operator. The upper ends oi. the members 13 and 14 are provided withv registering openings 19 through which extends the upper crossbar of the heddle frame, and an opening 18 is formed in the lower end of the strip 10 and through whichV extends the lower crossbar of the heddle frame. i

In the modified form shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the strip 2O is provided in its upper portion with a slit 21 forming two members 22 and 23 having their lower ends 24, 25 bent transversely in opposite directions to form an4 eye for the passage of the warp thread. The member 22 is provided immediately above the bent portion 24 with a sidewise extending integral lug 26 extending across the slit 21 so as to close the upper end of the' eye. The member 22 is bent over and superposed on the member 23 the same as above described in reference to the heddle illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and '3. The upper and lower ends of the heddle are provided with openings 2T, 28 for engagement by the top and bottom crossbars of the heddle frame.

In the modilied form shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, the heddle is formed of a single strip 30 provided in its upper portion with a slit 3i thereby forming the members 32, 33 provided at their lower ends with the bent eye portions 34, 35 for forming the heddle eye, in the same manner as above described in reference to the construction illustrated in Figs. l, 2 andv 3. The two members 32 and 33 in this case are bent toward each other to become superimposed at their upper portions thereby providing a closure for the upper end of the eye. 'lhe upper and lower ends of the strip are provided with openings 38, 39 Jfor engagement with the top and bottom crossbars of the heddle frame.

In the modi-fied form shown in Figs. l0 and 1l the heddle is formed of a single strip 40 provided with an eye formed by two struck-up, vertically disposed lugs 4l, 42 arranged in diierent planes. The lug 4l extends downwardly while the lug 42 eX- tends upwardly and the lugs are spaced apart a suflicient distance for the passage of the warp thread between them to allow the weaver to pass the warp thread first under one lug and then under the other, to thread the warpy thread in the eye. The up per and lower ends of the strip 40 are provided With openings 43 and for engagement by the top and bottom crossbars of the heddle frame. In order to prevent the lugs 4l`r and 42 of one heddle from being caught in the openings formed by the struck-up lugs onv an adjacent heddle, use is made of a covering strip having a bentportion 51 overlying the lugs 41 and 42. It is understood that the strips 40 and 50 can be readilyv bent apart to permit of passing the warp thread between the two strips to then engage the warp thread with the lugs 41 and 42', as above explained. The upper end of the covering strip 50 is provided with openings- 52, 58' in register with the openings; 43and 44 for engagement' by the top and bottom crossbars of the heddle frame.

Having thus described my invention, -l 50 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. A heddle formed of a single strip provided with an eye for the passage of a warp thread, the eye being formed oi two eye 5 members integral with the strip and arranged one alongside the other, the eye being normally closed at top and bottom.

2. A heddle comprising a single strip having an eye formed of two eye members 6 bent transversely in opposite directions,y the strip being split from the eye to one end to form two members being superposed and closing the eye at the split.

3. A heddle formed or' a single strip hav- 6 ing a lengthwise extending slit for the pas sage oi a warp thread, and forming two members terminating in eye portions ar ranged one alongside the other and bent transversely in opposite directions, the members being superposed and forming with the bent portions an eye normally closed at top and bottom, the said slit opening into the eye l'or the passage of the war a thread into the eye on bending the split 7 members apart.

4. A heddle formed oit' a single strip provided with a split extending from the top of the strip a distance downward and. terminating at its bottom in an enlarged' portion, the slit providing two members terminating at their inner ends in eye portions bent transversely in opposite directions and 'located on opposite sides of the said enlarged bottom end of the slit, the said' mem s bers being superposed above the said eye portions. i 5. A. heddle formed of a single strip provided with a slit extending from the top of the strip a distance downward and terminating at its bottom in an enlarged portion, the slit providing two members terminating at their inner ends in eye portions bent'transversely in opposite directions' and located on opposite sides of the said enlargedf bot- 9 tom end of the slit, and means closing the slit above the bottom portion thereof.

HENRY RUEGG, JR. 

